. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. Chap. IV. <tA M E %^ I C J. all things. The Moon, which was alio call'djW, they judg'd to be the Offspring of God, (for Son and Daughter were promifcuoufly taken) who, according to Homer, Marrying with Jupiter, brought forth Vulcan, which might haply be to them a Type or Figure of the Holy-Ghoft, proceeding from the Father and Son : Vulcan was by her plac'd a Prefident over the Fire, by which the Heathens feem'd to imitate the fiery Power of the Holy»GhoJl, purifying and cleanfing all things : and this cleanfing Power was aim'd at by (2(pw«/wi,when,according to Dionyfius Halicaniajfenfts, he commanded his Soldiers to leap through a Fire made before his Tent, that fo they might be purifi'd from all their Crimes. fBut it may be thought ftrange, that the Peruvians,Germans,ox Egyptians, loft in a Wood of grofs Idolatry, could have any appreh*nfion,though never fo obfeure, of the holy Trinity,when as the moft nice and curious Greek and %oman Wits have made fuch^grofs miftakes concerning God. But to return again to the Peruvians: They kept their fecond Feaft in the fecond Moneth Camayy on which they threw the Alhes of their Offerings into the River, and fol- low'd them on the Shore for the fpace of five Leagues, praying the River to carry the Afhes to the Sea, where Viracocba*would receive them. In the third and fou/th Moneths the
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